2:53 One year after German occupation of Kharkiv and the Ukrainian population still looks skinny and malnourished. The Germans plundered the food reserves as a means to fulfill the hunger plan. All of the Ukrainian signs from the Soviet era were gradually being replaced by German ones. Через рік після німецької окупації Харкова українське населення все ще виглядає худим і недоїданим. Німці грабували продовольчі запаси як засіб для виконання плану голодування. Усі українські вивіски радянських часів поступово витіснялися німецькими.

I'm quite surprised at how modern this city looks. It wouldn't be out of place in the 1970s.

Fantastic footage. And thank you so much for not adding a horrible music track that adds no value like so many others do

1:00 That skyline looks wild for 1942.

What's most impressive is the german camera equipment of that time.

Amazing footage. Looks quite modern. And the seeming calmness looks weird in the middle of that voracious war.

A lot of this footage takes place on the street I grew up on, “Sumskaja” street, as the Germans called it. Interesting to see some of those same buildings! Thanks for the amazing footage

Fascinating. The office building visible at 1:00 and 2:19 is called Derzhprom (worth checking it in Wiki). The first modern skyscraper in the Soviet Union, build in 1928. Apparently, most spacious building in the world before skyscrapers rose in New York in the 1930-es.

My great-grandpa living at that time with his family in Kharkov was responsible for the evacuation of the city as an officer of the red army. Later he got repressed by the Stalinist regime and went to the Gulag. He survived. And now this city he loved so much has become once again a victim of another brutal war …

The First and Second battles of Kharkov would mostly occur outside the city, with the defending forces simply withdrawing from the city proper. Third Battle of Kharkov in February - March 1943 however would see much of the city destroyed in the fighting.

Very nice footage, I am amazed by the quality of it!

Amazing footage!

Amazing video! Very good quality

great quality of the footage and in color, amazing.

I am surprised that the buildings were intact. Obviously German army took the city with little resistance.

Wow! Incredible footage

astonishingly high resolution, colour and picture quality

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Which archive is this from? Is it publicly accessable?

Fantastic, high-quality footage.

Amazing footage. I was there a few weeks ago and you can still see some of the same buildings, especially in the old city square.

Great footage. An amazing variety of vehicles in use by The Wehrmacht.

Thank you very interesting to plunge into history👍

This is stunning footage!

Wow this footage is amazing!

Thank you!

Incredible 👌 Btw is there no audio, or is it just an issue with my device?

To piggyback off of a comment made by someone else about how modern the city looks: In the same vein, most of the architecture we consider "modern" today when we think of a suburb or city in 2024 is stuff that was constructed during the 70s-90s. Weird how the lifespan of architecture tends to be crazy long compared to fashion or pop culture trends.

Thanks for the film. Excellent footage. What struck me was how clean the city is, not a piece of litter on the ground.

2:25 Metropolis

Un trabajo cinematográfico excelente congratulations gracias 😊

Amazing footage 😮

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Watching these color film clips makes the war so much more realistic; not like those black & white films where it doesn’t even seem real or that it happened way longer than it actually did. These give you a clear image of the reality of the whole thing. Too bad they don’t have sound though.

The city looked spectacular

Good video😊

great video, never really seen colour film of the soviet union in wartime before.

Wow the condition of the images is very good. I am a preacher of the word but also a geo politic history interested person.

Truly remarkable footage. Based of what we see, with the exception of the city being occupied by an army, it all looks (for the most part) very business as usual.

My grandfather mentioned Charkow as one of the cities he went through while fighting in Russia. In late December of 1942 my grandfather was wounded in the Stalingrad pocket and flown out with one of the last transports. He survived the war.

What I wouldn't give to talk to the old man at 1:23

Amazing video

Looking at this in 2024: It's really weird how the cars are not tailgating each other.

2:08 So schnell wird aus dem Hotel "International" ein Soldatenheim für die Wehrmacht. 3:18 "Die Panzersprenggranate" - ist das Werbung für einen Kinofilm?

What?! No corpses on streets, no ruins and no violence??

La qualité de ce film m’a scotché. Au début j’ai cru que c’était un défilé de figurants pour un film sur l’image arrêtée c’est dire !

Incredible!!! The building of the noble assembly is still in place

where is the hans zimmer song "time" ?

0:53 I built that Horch Sd.kfz.70 truck in 1/35 scale as a kid. Thanks MRC Tamiya!

I spent a couple years living and working at the KIPT site, yes, a lot of the same buildings were there than. The city was well laid out and the people were very friendly and welcoming. I still have a few friends there and in Kiev.

Historically talking, this was yesterday.82 years have passed, though.

Lol, it's interesting how I am able to recognise almost all the places shown here, because I saw exactly these buildings while walking in my city.

thanks, it was great to see how my city looked back in those days

Awsome

Yes, my hometown is Kharkov. Shots of the city center of the then still surviving city. It was interesting to see old footage of my city; after the war, there was little that was intact and then complete restructuring began, but the streets remained. It’s not for nothing that it later became a Hero City

Thanks .

This is incredible

Do you think people will look back at our days in awe like we do with theirs? Just how they acted, how it looked, the graininess of the footage everything is HD now days so it just feels like there wont be a noticeable distinction like we see with this.

@ 0:41 Iphone 15 or Samsung S24 Ultra ?

This is incredible footage

The sign on the Hotel at 2:05 says гомель, is this translation to Gomel?

Обалдеть какое качество съемок для 1942 года!!

Jarkov era una ciudad industrial. Casi todas las fábricas fueron evacuadas al Este por el E.R. casi en las narices de los alemanes.

This video really its differently. Colors, no retarded dramatic music, you can really grasp that feeling of "banality" in the german occupation. People casually walking the streets, cars. It doesn't suggest at all someplans of the germans like the Hüngerplan or the Ostplan. Like some comment says, it looks like the 60s-70s

Это что за здания такие на 2:18?

The Uniforms of Germany its Cool 👏👏👏

Когда началась Война бабушке было 16 лет и до Войны она часто ездила в Харьков, где жили ее родные. Она всегда вспоминала своих двоюродных брата и сестру. А после Войны она несколько раз пыталась их найти, и не нашла никого... Все погибли

Muito nítido pra época, parabéns!

My native city. Used to go to school along these streets. My grandparents lived adjacently

There are also colour photographs of the city that were taken around this same time. Interestingly there was a British Mark IV tank on display in Kharkov as a war monument.

i dont think they suffered under the german occupation

Was this shot in colour or has it been colorised ? Colour film was expensive and scarce in WW2.

0:32 What brand of car is this?

1:01 what in the hell time traveler that building is? It looks very modern

Real locals are those who sell bottles at the market. My great grandmother was deported to Germany for work. Each worker's arm had a tattoo of the number. In Germany, the great-grandmother was lucky with family in which she worked, they're sympathetically. Others were much less fortunate and did not return.

AMAZING Footage. I assumed the city would have suffered much more destruction. I'm more familiar with the second battle of Kharkov than the first one.

Wow ! certainly an officer movie made by hiw own, but so near to us in color ! a precious document of History ! thanks for sharing : )

My house is just 7 kilometers away from the places shown in the video, built by my greatgrandpa in 1936. My 13 grandfather is there with his 5 sisters and brothers, one more was figting, another was POW. He used to tell me that on Sumsyaya street , which is shown here, during first days of occupation germans hanged jews on balconies. Also after surrender in 1942 Barvenkovo operation there were tens, if not hundreds of thouthnds POW walking down the Poltavskiy Shlyah, which is also partially shown here. One of them gave my granddad money to buy food and he went to the market while they were marching down the road. He brought tomatoes and found that soldier. At least some contribution from the kid)) Anyway, I look at this at imagine myself on all these streets that are very well known, thinking that if I just appear there I would run to my hourse, that I rebuilt now and live in, to check on my ancestors.

1:28, a very fashionably dressed woman for 1942.

does anyone know what soldier is at 2:53 ? That is not a german helmet, nor hungarian, and not even romanian. And it's not soviet also. Thanks! And great quality video by the way, thanks for posting!

спасибо

Well unfortunate 80 years down the line for 4 battles for Oct-41 to Mar-43, this city is on the frontlines of another war for the last 2 years

Не будем вдаваться в детали при ком это снимали, чисто исторически очень важна сама съёмка. Запись очень качественная и чёткая. Центр Харькова замечателен.

Why was the Kharkov map removed from the game World of Tanks?

What does that sign say at 3:20?

Город буквально кишит немцами, в том числе и женского пола. Фронт недалеко - это понятно. В целом город совсем не выглядит разрушенным, даже запустили трамвай. Очень многие места узнаваемы. Где-то там, среди этих людей, переживает оккупацию девочка по имени Люда Гурченко. А в 200-х километрах, в Краматорске, живет в оккупации 14-летний мальчик Женя - мой будущий отец.

It’s eerie seeing people going on with their daily routine while under foreign occupation.

Супер! Очень интересно!

Those roads from 1942 are better than some roads today😱😱

Amazinge

women and children casually strolling the streets....

So was this like the preferred posting of a Wehrmacht soldier on the eastern front?

Surprising how there are no horses. And remarkable how you were able to put this into the wrong aspect ratio.

Not many of those healthy looking Wehrmacht soldiers would still be alive 6 months later

Самое интересное в етом видео ето вообще не разрушеный город,огромное количество гражданских людей на улицах спокойно передвигаються,да и вывески на зданиях много уже на немецком ето понятно для немцев.Но остальные вывески как говорят в( русском)Харькове почему то на Украинском язике.

Having been to Kharkiv a few times, a lot of the street scenes were very recognisable, amzing how much survived, given he ferocity of the battle in the area - or were a lot of the buldings rebuilt post war in a simialr style?

breathtaking.

Kharkiv: thank god the Germans are gone, I'm finally at peace. Thank you, Russia, for saving me. Russia in 2022: allow me to re-introduce myself

there in footage are many Ukrainian cities that were part of the Soviet Union. they were not Russian, the signs on the shops were even in Ukrainian. Ukraine was occupied by Russia under the name USSR.

Quanlity of the video is a million times better than UFO sighting.